"At our mid-year point, Proximity has served over 85,000 customer households with our irrigation technology, rural finance, and advisory services. Year-to-date irrigation sales are up 11 percent, compared to FY2016, and our new sprinkler irrigation product has been well-received by farmers. Adoption rates for our farm advisory services jumped to 68 percent by quarter end, as our extension staff served 8.2 farmers each per working day. Proximity Finance is now serving 60,238 active customers with an outstanding portfolio of USD11.7 million. Proximity Research focused on recent inter-communal violence in Rakhine State with domestic research visits, and made preparations to take Myanmar leaders to visit Indonesia and Maluku in the next quarter. Our in-house product and service design team, Proximity Labs, completed a full-season pilot of our SMS-messaging service to advise farmers on timely fertilizer application, ready for launch next quarter..."